PDP backs Jonathan on amnesty for B’Haram

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has thrown its weight behind President Goodluck Jonathan for constituting an amnesty committee on the Boko Haram insurgency.

The party said the President’s action was another demonstration of his sincerity and forthrightness in handling national issues.

It said the President had shown that he was indeed a listening leader and that the unity of the country was paramount to him in line with the vision of the founding fathers of the nation.

A statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Friday, said the constitution of the committee was commendable.

The statement said, “We believe the initiative of the President in setting up the amnesty committee is the best decision at the moment and we are optimistic that this drive will yield the desired results in the general good and restore the unity of our nation.

“In giving the committee the terms of reference to consider the feasibility or otherwise of granting amnesty to the Boko Haram adherents and to collate the clamour arising from different interest groups, who want the Federal Government to administer clemency on members of the religious sect and to recommend the modalities for granting amnesty if necessary, the President has again shown his humility and commitment to carry all Nigerians along in all his actions in line with the tenets of democracy.

“We assure Nigerians that the PDP remains resolute in the commitment to restore peace in the country, especially in the North and to return the region to its lost glory as the hub of unity, investment and trade in the country and the West African sub-region.”

Metuh described the northern part of the country as the most receptive region in the country, adding that there was no part of the country that was more accommodating “than the North which has always been home for all people, irrespective of religious creed and tribal affiliations.”

Laudable step taken by Mr. President for solving this problem that perdured unnecessarily. Why wait this long to do the right thing especially when it has been suggested by many notable Nigerians including past presidents. Perhaps another manifestation of confusion and unpreparedness to rule from the side of Mr. President. I only remembered that the ACN national leader also suggested this option as the way out of the menace, which I also embraced as a courageous and reasonable thinking from a trained and worthy leader. Jona was definitely afraid of criticism from the side of the opposition for not adopting this option before now or he simply wanted to boycott the idea because it first came from his divorced Godfather OBJ.

http://www.facebook.com/tina.eboka.5 Tina Eboka

You must be the bigest idiot by suggesting amnest for killers,watch out it will never work.

Synario

The killing did start today and will not end today. Trace the history. These people always need blood of christians to appease the gods (Mohammed)

http://twitter.com/brostai bros taiwo

Some sensible leaders surgested amnesty but decline. Well, lets wait till all the ibo are kill.

http://www.facebook.com/steve.osuoha Steve Osuoha

So the cowardly Yorubas are not being killed abi? Well we are waiting to see the out come of the amnesty, is only a fool that will agree that such an easy way will work.The north will be as Mali soon , as I see all the islamic terrorist from Mali will now relocate to the north.The north is doom and nothing will stop the blood sucking killers from taking over the north, just mark my words.Finally with this amnesty, the government will have no moral justification to fighting MEND ….Nigeria is really going and I don’t see it existing by 2015!

MR PEACE

What do you want PEACE or WAR . What is your problem Steve Osuoha ?

How would you feel , if you should loose any of your family members ?

Dont you think will need PEACE in this country .

Do you think war against BH can solve BH menace ?

American is negotiating with Taliban after 10 yrs of war . So do you want us to waste our resource for 10 yrs b4 will find lasting solution to the problem .

http://twitter.com/Biafrandum2015 Peterson biafra

for this you have said meant you are out of your senses , and since Igbos are not only mortal man who can die , if you not eat this your vomit before then you will and must first die by any means before any Igbo die by murder from today on.

Efe1

Tell us what will work! The American have spent 10 years or more in Afghanistan trying to kill all the terrorist, and today more terrorist are still there. Now the Americans are hoping the Taliban will drop their guns and take part in election. And guess what, they will win. So what that tells me is that, you can kill a man who want to die to stop him killing himself and others. We need to look at the root cause. I feel it is corruption, unemployment, injustice, and impunity by people in authority.

Peter2000

Why are you people so mentally challenged? So you are expecting your Islamic mass murderers. to just lay down their arms because of what? Amnesty??? Have you people not had amnesty for all your murders in Nigeria for the past 60yrs??? What is going to change now???

Abdullahi

Check your dictionary for the meaning of the word amnesty! Half education is a serious handicap. A word is enough for the wise.

Socrates_1

SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! Malu, what do you know about amnesty? Just cause the govt has never stated amnesty doesn’t mean in effect that’s not what’s going on in Nigeria. what’s the difference with saying you’ve been granted amnesty and giving impunity to murderers without granting amnesty? NONE! You Northern are about to open a can of worm that will turn your region into a rebel torn war zone! Dumb Nigerians always looking for easy way out of very complex problems.

We have said it. There is no point in further argument. You re free to leave this country for us if you are badly hurt by Mr President decision. Amnesty has come to stay. All these outbursts from your mouth cannot change public opinion. Rather move to USA where amnesty is not welcome. But if u re conversant wit recent happenings all over d world, you would hav known that no counry, even America, has ever been successful in defeating d so-called terrorists. They all find a way of dialogue at last, like America is doing now. America has spent so far 800 billion Dollas tax payers money over fight against terrorism all over d world. Still it does not abate. You can research on d intenet.

James

Thank you. Abudullahi is brainless. I can assure the president and all the killers from the north that amnesty will not work. These people get their inspiration from the devil from the middle east. You can’t tame a wild serpent. It will only kill and swallow you. How come Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan haven’t used amnesty to put an end to terrorism? Any group that beheads innocent people should never be given amnesty. The blood they’ve shed will not go unpunished. May the victims’ blood haunt anyone who suggested amnesty for those blood suckers, as well as the boko haram members themselves. Amen.

Your father

Idiot, even the almighty America with it sophisticated and superior war gadgets has now resorted to dialogue with Taliban after 10 years of endless war, and so why should it be problem when our defenseless FGN does that, it’s not a sign of weakness

Socrates_1

Well said Peter! They’ve had amnesty for all the innocent lives they’ve killed during all the religious riots they always start. The killings in the North will never stop until Nigeria divides and the North go their way and kill themselves!

http://twitter.com/Biafrandum2015 Peterson biafra

even them go their way that is the start of war with other christians there and within themselves

Ayoefa

You are very right, half education is a serious handicap. These fools are so blinded by their hatred and bigotry that they can’t even read between the lines.
Pls don’t waste you time arguing with these imbeciles. Just state your views and let them cry over spilled milk.

http://www.facebook.com/tina.eboka.5 Tina Eboka

Olisa Metuh you are a judas,Almighty God will never forgive you.You will die just like those innocent people that boko harma killed judas.

John

We want the killing to stop and its obvious our govt is not capable to end this menace by all the security outfits at his disposal. Hence, d amnesty. I think d amnesty is better or should we just allow them to continue killing? Is there any other known solution by d govt? If none, let us manage or atleast see how this is gonna work out.

satstrip

GOODLUCK NOT MAN OF HIS WORDS, FIRST HE SAID UNILAG SHOULD BE CHANGE TO MOSHOOD ABIOLA UNIVERSITY, LATER HE CHANGE HIS DECISION, SECOND WAS FIVE THOUSAND NAIRA NOTE AFTER FEW WEEKS HE CHANGE HIS MIND, THIRD WAS PARDON FOR ALAMEISIA, FOURTH WAS FUEL SUDSIDY THAT HAS BROUGHT SUFFREING TO NIGERIA, AND IT IS NOW A NATIONAL CAKE IN THE PDP. NOW THIS BADLUCK IS GRANTING AMMENESTY TO BOKO HARAM WHO HAS KILLED AND DESTROY PROPERTY, BECAUSE THEIR USELESS LEADERS ASK FOR THAT. I KNOW GOODLUCK WANT TO PLEASE EVERY BODY SO THAT HE CAN CONTEST 2015. BUT I PROMISE YOU, U WILL FAIL WOEFULLY IN RESPECTIVE OF WERE YOUR HOPE IS, COZ NIGERIANS ARE TIRED OF YOU. CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME ONE GOOD THINGS THIS FOOL HAS DONE SINCE HE CAME INTO OFFICE?

dave

Thank you my dear, let olisa metu go and learn how liah mohamed the acn scribe addresses issues, the artucalative touch with sense of maturity and decorum. Metu to me speaks as a school leaver who is afraid to loose job. He has no in-depth knowledge of facts, childish presentations with no color of maturity. Well that is what the biggest party in the world can afford

http://www.facebook.com/tina.eboka.5 Tina Eboka

Jonathan you and those pdp member from the south,don’t come back home after 2015 except you call for NC,if not hmmmmmm.

http://twitter.com/Biafrandum2015 Peterson biafra

nice talk , no mind them , even no body may touch them but God will course them to die because God cannot do everything to souths or send every body on that position , as God did it now and they want to use it as an opportunities for their own personal interest lets watch and see.

MR PEACE

If you dont like amnesty for BH for sake of peace and to save innocent Nigerians , you can go to North Korea , you will have opportunity to see bloody everyday bcos the war is about to start .

It will be a nice place for you and your family to see blood flowing like river bcos war btw North Korea and SK/USA will not be an easy one .

Just take free Visa and go .

Useless and myopic people .

What do you want to gain from war .

If BH is successful in planting one BOMB in Oshodi or Obalande , do you know how many innocent lives will be lost ?

GOOD WORK MR PRESIDENT .

Okwute

Mr PEACE, Can’t you make your comment without calling someone useless and myopic? Most people have the same opinion as yours?
It is rather ironical here that someone as senseless, brainless, blind, and complete visionless will call someone who made a clear and honest comment myopic. During yardua govt, he granted delta militants amnesty, today the north are capitalizing on that to deman for amnesty for BH. Now I want to ask you, what makes you think another group will not come out tomorrow and start killing people with the intention that amnesty awaits them? I ask you again? When yardua was granting amnesty to Delta militants did he know that a group would one say spring somewhere else and want to rely on amnesty? Do you want to believe that had yardua not given delta militants amnesty the north today, in fact no one today would be talking about amnesty for BH. You see why you are the idiot? Myopic and senseless? If you must know, no responsible govt pays evil off with money. I’m not you are educated, but if you are, then you should know what bad precedent is! It is only a lazy and visionless govt tha will want to buy killers over because it is a quick means of getting peace but unfortunately, the peace it gets can only be temporary because a bad crop has been planted.
Today, has there been peace in the delta region? No! Why did yardua choose to pacify minority of people instead dealing with the real problem in the delta region region. The reason he did it was because he reasoned like you and other short-sited idiots in that country!

Okwuta(Stone). Honestly you don’t understand nothing at all. Your write up is purely on self thinking. Issues are handled as it comes thats why we see different circumstances and things can only be viewed from how it comes. I am among the few that is happy that a step on the right direction is in progress what I am waiting for is what CAN will say in the day ahead. Jesus said. If you are free from same sin as the woman be the first to cast stone on her. All these are the manifestation of corruption but any means that will stop blood letting must be accepted.

Now people are reasoning before anyone that says Amnasty was seen as a BH. Thank God people can see that their is no gain in blood letting. Both BH & Governemnt has been on killing mission in the last 1 year without any good result.

Olayori

I agree with Mr peace because we currently do not have an alternative. The Presidency is too weak to arrest the sponsors of BK. Maybe it is more of a political mess. We don’t have the morale, and the security officials to handle terrorism. The masses are blinded by ethnic sentiments, and ignorance. The Opposition parties are using BK menace to score political points.
What will anyone of us gain when a bomb goes off at CMS during rush hour? Until we have a group of leaders with ideas, and masses that want to set ethnic bigotry aside, we all are in this mess together. Amnesty, in Naija perspective means surrender to the bad boys in exchange for the a piece of the National cake. But peace is better than consistent bomb blasts in the Country.

MR PEACE

Do you want BH to kill your family b4 you know that lasting solution should be provided to the menace of BH ?

Cant you use your head to think ?

Do you have better option ?

Let us know your option and the procedure including cost and duration it will take Nigeria to defeat BH ?

My suggestion is that Government should consider those that suffer directly or indirectly from menace of BH including place of worship , shop and house .

PEACE FOR LIFE

Socrates_1

SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! Use your head to think first before you insult others! You’re talking like amnesty is the only solution to terrorism when we all know the reason GEJ has failed in stopping the violence in the North is because he has not sincerely taken the RIGHT actions to end the violence there. Sending JTF in to murder innocent people is NOT how you tackle BH. You only breed new converts and alienate the communities that should be providing intelligence info to the government. The right strategy would have been to use a 3 prong approach: 1) Have the courage to arrest and prosecute all the prominent politicians that’re funding these people. GEJ says he knows who they are, and some are in his administration, but he’s a coward to arrest them. 2) Start immediate development in these under developed Northern areas. Concrete development like electricity and roads that the people can see and infrastructures that will encourage entrepreneurship, thus job creation. 3) The security agents need to understand that they can not win this fight without the assistance of the communities BH hide in. Use better intelligent tactics in fishing out or arresting BH members. Provide monetary rewards and anonymity for credible info leading to arrests. Stop all the extra judiciary killings of innocent people. GEJ has not done any of these and you fools commenting here are acting like all that can be done, has been done, and amnesty is the only answer. Amnesty will only lead to the rise of a 100 more terrorist groups around the country cos the people now believe the only way to get resources from govt is to bear arms and wage havoc on the country. Don’t worry, you will soon see the shortsightedness of amnesty soon. Just watch and see how many armed groups will rise in Nigeria. Just like kidnapping/419/corruption, if you show Nigerians an evil way to make money and there’s no punishment, like sheep they will follow and copycat.

John Tapiya Joseph

You are the man jor, you have said it all, GEJ is lilly livered to arrest and prosecute the people funding Boko Haram, and they prefer using the money they would have used for development to settle their polical sons that do the development work they were voted for.

Efe1

You see your GEJ has sold you out! You said he is the best, now you don’t want him back! What happened in the last few days that you now don’t want him back? He is from south south like you, so he will come back to you.

This is a game plan for 2015, but Mr. President watches your back! I don’t like your administration, but will never wish you bad. If President Jonathan wins party primary
comes 2015, Northern people will use this sect to kill him for any attempt to
campaign in Northern region of Nigeria. It might sound awful, but Nigeria
should watch out. This is the problem Great Britain created for Nigeria in 1960 by imposed Balewa on us, and Northerners believe that it is their birthright to continue to be ruling Nigeria.

vitn

his target is whatever he can do to win election 2015 whether good or bad, Lawful or unlawful, normal or abnormal “he does not give a damn”
This is ridiculous!

Andrew

The truth is that in a free and fair election, Jonathan with all the amnesty will not win the next election. Now that amnesty is politically motivated, the blood of those killed by BH will continuing cry to God for veagence. Also note, these bastards will not stop their war when the amnesty is given since they derive inspiration from devil. The amnesty is going to recognise and empower them like never before.

http://twitter.com/OkoawoBlueGate Okoawo BlueGate

finally, the almajijiris will now have source of livelihood. i beg every street bigger will come for the amnesty programs. northern leaders will share arms to almajijiri in their domain to present to the amnesty programs coordinators. it is going to continue ad finitun , from north to south and earth and west.

sizzla sizzla jr

Will there ever be any deep rational thinking on how black leaders reason for God sake? lf not for election it will be ethnic sentimental bigotry reasoning or turning the betterment of God given religion that was supposed to lead the citizenry upside down. Why is black leaders so acting stupidly for ego all the time with barbaric attitude. In common sense those that are calling for Amnesty, on what base? To bring boko haram out, to start donating money to whatever murderers out there or to donating Nigeria money to son of a bitch favorite ghost.

Kenny Chicago

GEJ is the biggest fool/animal I’ve ever known. Jona went to Borno to disgrace himself couple of days ago by saying NO amnesty for Boko Haram (ghost) when pple (Asiwaju Tinubu & co) that matters in the country and beyond advised him (GEJ) to grant Boko their request. SO WHY IS GEJ FOOLING HIMSELF! Naija is tired & sick of U Jona. Your regime has really claimed & sucked lots of blood (through plane crash, road accident, sea accident, militants operations Niger Delta/Boko Haram). Your life story from adam (precept) is a complete blood sucking type of spirit that has sucked blood of both young and old, unborn babies, leaders of tomorrow and past including your own personal boss his blessed memory President Yar’adua which you removed from office and your madam too equally took away Turai’s project from her. Am sure you remember what happened during your teenage life into adult hood and your days at the university. The same Alams you plotted out of office was pardoned by you. Amnesty is not the solution to all the problems you invented into the land, but jobs creation, good securities, quality basic amenities, and above corruption should be put to death at all levels. Your madam flying to Germany for medicals while JUTH, LUTH, Ibadan Hospital among all could not serve purpose. God is watching you all as you lavish poor men’s food/money/vote/right.

MR PEACE

Really i commend the boldness of GEJ to find lasting solution to problem of BH . No matter what useless and myopic people are sayn on the issue of BH . I will continue to support GEJ on this issue .

Pls , what do you want GEJ to do , when there is killing in the North , you will condemn him by using all sort of abusive language like ” MUMU ” and the rest ? Now he decided to find lasting solution to the problem of BH , you are still going against Mr President .

Do you have better option apart from amnesty ?

I have challenge many of you to bring better option on this platform better than ” amnesty “. None of you including ” CAN ” can provide alternative . Going by what is happening in international world no country has ever won war against ” Terrorist ” . The virus ( terrorism ) always change dimension , when you try to tackle or suppress it from one direction , it will change style and come in another dimension . This is the major reason why USA is negotiating with Taliban bcos they could not defeat them after 10 yrs with a lot of resources putting into it .

Presently , North Korea has declared war and South Korea and USA including UN are looking for way to negociate with ” FAT BOY ” bcos it will not only ruin the economy of South Korea and America but alot of innocent lives will be sacrificed as well . Moreso , Nuclear weapon from North Korea can find it way to Iran which is dangerous to existence of Israel .And if care is not taken Taliban and other terrorist group can have access to this destructive weapon .

Do you think we are safe in this country if BH can gain access to destructive weapon ?

Conclusively , i commend GEJ on the issue of amnesty for BH and government should not forget those that loose their relative and other useful resources including place of worship .

GOD BLESS

Dele

Your insultive comments against the president on this issue of granting amnesty to Boko Haram adherents is over the bound.It’s even more surprising that the Punch would allow this kind of comments published without moderation.The fact that we have freedom of speech and writing does not guarantee pouring of invectives on someone without control and we are talking of a president of a country here for good sake.This is sad.

Why not is it right to give kiilers amnesty what about those that died who will give them amnesty.A women lead revelution in other country since our southern men are not ready we are on top of it.

John Tapiya Joseph

You that is useful, so you think amnesty will bring an end to the problem abi ? Mr. Peace, what happens if another group comes up 2mao with their own claims ? The US where you stay has a policy of non negotiation with terrorist, because they don’t want to give the impression that they have a listening ear to any useless blood thirsty animal that goes out there and starts shooting people to get attention, no matter how just your cause is if you start shooting people first so you can get a say you will pay the ultimate price in the US, but Naija and GEJ wants to do it diFferently with all the lifes that have been wasted Jonah wants to forgive and 2mao another person will claim he wants to be president and raise a group of killers then after he has caused Mayhem he will be forgiven and be integreted into the society, how long do you think this will go one ? And of course he can’t stop it cos he started it.

Many of you only assume that another group may emerge. But this is just an assumption. It may happen and at the same time may never happen. Assumption is far different frm d reality. B’Haram is a reality now but is it 100 percent real or sure that another group may emerge? If it is not sure, then let’s face d reality now and brush aside what may not be real for d sake of peace. Infact, it is sure that if government should put every necessary infrastructure in place to guarantee better child education, reducing unemployment n poverty, no group will be interested in insurgency. Such n others are d responsibility of d govt to ensure security and safety of lives n properties.

lenny

Yes everybody wants peace but you don’t negotiate with terrorists who target innocent civilians who had they had no grievance with. And by the way how do you think the families of those slain by these terrorists will feel? And have boko haram even shown any remorse for their actions? You can only forgive someone that has asked for mercy. Boko haram hasn’t done such and when it is granted to who will it be granted.

http://www.facebook.com/tina.eboka.5 Tina Eboka

you are even the bigest fool,abokis always make stupid comment,january 1st 2014 is around the corner you will see revelution we are on it.

alf

well lets wait and see if your so called lasting solution will last! This is another opportunity to chop and cause more confussion! The issue here is that they have seen that jonathan has a soft mind which they have now confirmed; the rest is you will remember what I have said!

dave

If jona is a lillyliver person what do you make of the so called biggest party in the world, pdp. They are dancing like a jelly all in the pretense of flowing with a dierectiionless leadership. They supported Bornu declaration of no amnesty to faceless people, now that their faces have been seen they are back dancing mokoba behind a listening regime. What a country, Nigeria’s are you people not tired of this dance, can we not try another music.

DrP2

Well maybe because …Dasuki and the others have shown GEJ the real faces behind BH….it is not everything you say on TV…..the real losers will be their victims

Olayori

PDP is not the largest party in the World.

randy

Dave you are on point. The party and the President is weak and chicken hearted.

Amukoko

He has no mind of his own. Clueless. I’m sure if DAME Patience was around, this wouldn’t have happened. Believe me! She would have slapped him down so fast/quickly Jona would still be wondering what on earth had hit him!

EDO 1

I don’t like insulting people in this forum but please permit me to call Kenny
Chicago a multiple fool. I don’t know if you are in Nigeria as you named yourself Kenny Chicago. If you are in Chicago with your family and a state close to you wants to wage war against you, will you pray for that war to commence or seeking for peace? Or if one or two of your families build house in Northern part of Nigeria. Gej is a listen president, and I really commend his steps. Always seek for peace and not war. It’s only agent of Satan, blood sucker that can oppose dialogue or amnesty.

Dan

@Edo. Why did the fool said no to dialog when he was advised to dialog in d first place. Jonathan has failed the Nigerians

MR PEACE

You a big moron and fool indeed . Who gave you that audacity to talk to our president like that ?

If not bcos i have families in Chicago , i would have ask “FAT BOY ” from North Korea to send one missile to your family in Chicago so that you will know how painful it is to loose family members .

You are a useless Nigerian leaving in Chicago .

Just continue to leave in Chicago bcos we dont need people like you that do not have respect for their leaders .

Do you think without peace any investor can come to Nigeria and invest in Borno or Yobe State even Lagos State (center of Excellency ) ?

We Yoruba people dont want to loose our enemy talkless of friend or family members to BH menace . So we will continue to support anything that can be bring peace to the country in general .

If you need war as suggested by many people , you can go to North Korea or Afghanistan .

We dont want to loose or sacrifice innocent citizen to unnecessary stupidity of some hopeless people ( BH ).

PEACE FOR LIFE

BOSSO

it seems to me that you are even the bigger fool here. You call Jona YOUR PRESIDENT abi? how many people in Nigeria still call Jona their president after all these shameless performances by him and his wife and the rogue gang called PDP ? You are definitely the biggest fool.

Emmanuel

Hello Mr Bosso, best of the greetings to you.

I am also, so is most SENSIBLE Nigerian a bigger fool to admit Jona as our PRESIDENT. We do not have any other PRESIDENT in Nigerian. I wonder which country you are from and I’ll advice you to think before you make your view known especially in public. No matter what Jona does, we have to accept and if we refuse or object to his decision, we have to go through the appropriate channel and it is unwise to INSULT him.

Guest

Your so call president jonathan is the bigest mumu just like you,he is a fail president he is on his own,We the south can never give him our vote come 2015,we won’t even vote for apc either they are both the same.We are going to back a small party come 2015 that is if there will still be a country called nigeria becouse the almagamation of southern and northern nigeria ends jaunary 1st 2014.

Lennuz

Am not too sure u know God Kenny Chicago because if you do u won’t react this way pouring all sort of expletive words on someone like your Father. Am disappointed in you into-to. You just showed us how immature you are.

brass

Jonathan,if you must know,you have shot yourself at the foot.U have perfectly fallen into many descriptions that people have said concerning you.You speak before you think

Dr katch

Hold your peace if you don’t have anything meaningful to say. Stop insulting the Office of the president.

http://www.facebook.com/muyiwa.akojede Muyiwa Akojede

Giving amnesty is just bribing those financing boko-haram 2 pave way 4 him come 2015 & either U̶̲̥̅̊ like it / not u’re going out of Aso-rock. U̶̲̥̅̊ said earlier that U̶̲̥̅̊ can never grant amnesty 4 faceless people.
Are they now known?
If FG now identify boko-haram,is granting amnesty next thing 4 evils that ve been wasting innocent lifes?
This is a big blunder from FG.

http://twitter.com/youagreedornot oteg

I dey wait to see the outcome of the amnesty. If the Boko Haram will accept western education or the FG will allow them to control 19 state…

http://twitter.com/Juliusolad ogunsanwo julius

pdp will not back the govt in good thing it is in thing they steal from they come out to back up

innoje

Olisa Metuh has gone crazy. Who on this planet earth told him that the northern part is the most receptive and accomodating irrespective of tribe or religion? Was he drunk when he issued the statement? As long as we continue to shy away from the truth in this country, we can never make headway. For GEJ, amnesty to BH will capsize this country like a ship. Go ahead with your amnesty programme and watch the emergence of other groups. Who even told this clueless govt. and stupid supporters of amnesty that these devils(BH) will accept it? They are guided by religious tenets and will not give a damn about your amnesty. The only solution is to invite foreign security personnel from the West

Ijaodola

Why the whole noise and touch ratting in Borno state, if the president knew he was not strong enough to stand by his words? He sounded so tough on this issue some few weeks ago, now he has suddenly realise the wisdom on amnesty? This is the worst government of inconsistency Nigeria ever witness. Yet, granting amnesty to Boko-Haram may not necessarily bring peace to the country. It will only promote culture of violence and impunity.

Soberekon Oluye A.

Jonathan should also give them a Ministry of Boko Haram.

http://twitter.com/youagreedornot oteg

The evil northern leaders initiated is coming back to hurt them. From be the president to onshore and offshore oil. I’m waiting to see how amnesty will solve this problem. norther leaders always like to share innocent blood, their hands are full of innocent blood.
So for my own obviation, the people that initiated Boko Haram (Northern Leaders) have fine another avenue to continue with they evil. Is not for the progress of the country but to share the money within themselves.
However, BH ingratiation is against western education and western culture and they want to Islamism the country or control 12 state out of 19 state of the northern part of the country, so giving amnesty to them, mean government have accepted they ingratiation or what? Anyway all i notice from Jonathan, is because of 2015, this is PDP stratagems to outwit the opposition and retain the power.

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CELTICS

PDP IS THE POLITICAL WING OF BOKO HARAM, SO THEY WILL BACK THE AMNESTY.

http://www.facebook.com/quale.primum Quale Primum

PDP are hypocrites. What has changed in the lsst few months. When the sultan of sokoto suggested amnesty evryone including CAN went for his head. Gej is now seeing the reason behind the call. A lot of guys forgot thatbthe sultan was defence attache to pakistan so he knows what he is talking about.

More importantly if the amnesty is being considered as a ploy to convince the north and win election 2015. It is a great and strategic srep to failure. We had only seen politricking and deceits in the last rwo years with no governance and development taking place.

PDD should become synonym for failure in our local lexicon.

God bless Nigeria and may HE destroy all the people that are fleecing us of the commonwealth.

BBC

WELL,THIS WON’T BE THE FIRST TIME THIS GORILLA OF A PRESIDENT IS PARDONING CRIMINALS,ACTUALLY,THIS IS THE ONLY AREA THIS ADMINISTRATION IS MAKING PROGRESS,PARDONING AND CUDDLING CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS.WHAT A LOSER,RUINING A LIFETIME CHANCE.

MR PEACE

Do you want BH to kill your family b4 you know that lasting solution should be provided to the menace of BH ?

Cant you use your head to think ?

Do you have better option ?

Let us know your option and the procedure including cost and duration it will take Nigeria to defeat BH ?

Nigeria is on the edge of precipice ,only God could rescue us.Now that the amnesty committee has been constituted by GET,we could only anticipate that it provide the expected result.This is a trying time not only for GET but all Nigerians.We should suggest creative solution to this problem instead of destructive criticism .

ego.f

All to save lives, that is the most important thing

NIGERIAN

Nigeria is a forced Marriage of people with reconcilable differences. But we all have one thing in common ”LEADERS” our leaders are united in greed and quest for power. They’ll do the unthinkable to make sure dis arrangement is maintained. If u think the President will be satisfied to have peace and be President of SS only…u’re deceived….the oil alone cannot give him His Current Status. So don’t be surprised they’ll always negotiate and Nigeria will not break under their watch. What we can do is demand for development, social security ( for Aged and Unemployed) and a National Conference where the current arrangement will be reviewed.

SHIKENA!!!

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frank

Opc we start soon then every member we get what they want you this idiot

Guykings

So if BH says that all Nigerians MUST covert to Islam as
their only Condition to drop harms, what will happen then? Because once you
grant them this Amnesty, you have given them more power to bargain. No one is
happy with the state of affairs in the North, but is granting this blood
sucking people Amnesty going to satisfy them? We love life, they love death and
they are prepared to die for their course and religion. Is only God that can intervene
in this matter!

rockwood

Ordinary people gravely affected by the activities of cave like mentality, evil, inconsiderate
BOKO and splinter group. Will not be wise for FG to ask Nigerian to decide on amnesty instead of selected group with possibilty of vested interest. What happen to democracy. Let people decide and not unvetted group. Decision of the people will solve issue of amnesty or not. We are not in prehistoric era, we are in democracy. We will always have problem
if decision so serious as this is decided by elders or selected few. Nigeria belongs to all Nigerian and not selected few.

http://www.facebook.com/ezra.john.96 Ezra John

lets go by d scripture,”forgive even your worse enemy” let God b d judge. rememeba we wil all stand b4 him one day

regular

Mr peace or what name u call urself, this room will appreciate if you can drop ur number because presently I begin to suspect you as one of the BH member. Now let me ask you, did amnesty solve the problem of BH people? Or u think after doing that the problem of nigerians will solve? I strongly believe jonathan is trying to seek favour in d eyes of the northernans all because of his desire to go 4 second time.I believe we should support ourselves and reason 2geda not to trow abuses to one another. Even mr president don’t know what BH people are fighting for.

ODO EJYKE …. ENUGU

If granting amnesty will bring solution to the problem of boko haram please I support amnesty. If you amnesty is not good for boko haram please suggest a better means of making peace with boko haram, our president will always give a listening ear, he is a true democrat

Socrates_1

SHUT THE FUCK UP TO ALL SUPPORTING AMNESTY!!! You all are talking like amnesty is the only solution to terrorism when we all know the reason GEJ has failed in stopping the violence in the North is because he has not sincerely taken the RIGHT actions to end the violence there. Sending JTF in to murder innocent people is NOT how you tackle BH. You only breed new converts and alienate the communities that should be providing intelligence info to the government. The right strategy would have been to use a 3 prong approach: 1) Have the courage to arrest and prosecute all the prominent politicians that’re funding these people. GEJ says he knows who they are, and some are in his administration, but he’s a coward to arrest them. 2) Start immediate development in these under developed Northern areas. Concrete development like electricity and roads that the people can see and infrastructures that will encourage entrepreneurship, thus job creation. 3) The security agents need to understand that they can not win this fight without the assistance of the communities BH hide in. Use better intelligent tactics in fishing out or arresting BH members. Provide monetary rewards and anonymity for credible info leading to arrests. Stop all the extra judiciary killings of innocent people. GEJ has not done any of these and you fools commenting here are acting like all that can be done, has been done, and amnesty is the only answer. Amnesty will only lead to the rise of a 100 more terrorist groups around the country cos the people now believe the only way to get resources from govt is to bear arms and wage havoc on the country. Don’t worry, you will soon see the shortsightedness of amnesty soon. Just watch and see how many armed groups will rise in Nigeria. Just like kidnapping/419/corruption, if you show Nigerians an evil way to make money and there’s no punishment, like sheep they will follow and copycat.

ishaq

I’ll continue to hate these ignorants and myopic southerners dat are making irresponsible and senseless statements,,, the best step is amnesty nd even d Igbo leaders declared that,,, no two ways about it,, JONA has taken a bold step,,may we have a long lastin peace once again in Nigeria,,, however haters continue

ADEBANJI MOSES

Mr president,what is the precedent u are paint for Nigerians. Don’t allow anybody mislead u.Kindly think twice b4 arrival at any conclusion.NIGERIANS SECURITY SHOULD BE YOUR MOST WATCH-WARD

Obiwest

Jonathan is nothing but a man who has no mind of his own.Leadership is not about the position but the action that is need of you.Week ago he tagged boko haram “GHOST”now he wants to dialogue with who.If he grant them amnesty it will be the biggest mistake he has made in this government

lenny2402

So you bomb some places for no reason and you get forgiven and probably get millions in benefit. I guess being legal downt pay off anymore.there are thousands of pple with who have not committed crimes awaitin trial 4 up to 8yrs. Wat of d scores of graduates who have decided to remain law abiding citizens inspite of the harsh economy? Maybe they should rise up against the gov’t and get amnesty also. Since amnesty is being thrown around now without even weighin the pros and cons. And also the families of those killed by boko haram shld form their sect and bomb some places also. They will also get amnesty. I know this decision will come back to bite us in the future. Maybe 2015.

James Bale

The great North is winning again.They will make a southerner grant amnesty to prepare for a peaceful era when one of their own ascends the throne in 2015. Jonathan eyes are not open enough to see that even if he converts to Islam, North will not support him on his 2015 ambition. Let him continue in his delusion.

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@Socrates_1, @Okwute
Please, stop calling people fool and idiot on this forum. Again, Mr PEACE has made more sense in his comment than you did in yours.
The 3 options you have given cannot work under the circumstances that we have because first, GEJ needs concrete proof in order to be able to arrest these alleged sponsors that you are talking about. Secondly, development cannot stop these boko boys either because they are even destroying the little development they have in these troubled areas.
Thirdly, the JTF is doing what they should but in the process more innocent people are also being killed.
Therefore, the only solution right now is Amnesty for a start and after that your number 2 option of infrastructural development can be implemented.
Furthermore, you must understand that GEJ needs the North to win in 2015 and if he refuses to listen to the voices of people like Sultan, Buhari and other Northern elders by granting amnesty to the boko boys then he will be standing against the whole North in the 2015 elections and innocent people will continue to lose their lives.
Therefore, grant them Amnesty and if they continue after the Amnesty then hold their leaders responsible and resume the fight with JTF.
Again, the option of Amnesty is better because fight cannot stop these boko boys if you understand what terrorism means You can ask USA and other countries who have been fighting terrorism for the past 10 to 12 years to understand this.
In fact anyone who is against Amnesty at this stage is against the good people of Nigeria.
Na sense we dey take follow people not force.
Enough of unnecessary abuse and insult in this forum.
God bless Nigeria

Forfaka

Amnesty for those Hausa/Fulani terrorists is a perfidious proposition.It is
a slur over the memories of those thousands of innocent Nigerian citizens
whose lives were brutally terminated by the terrorists.Furthermore it is an
act of betrayal against the orphans, relatives and widows of Boko Haram’s

victims of mass murder campaign.
The Federal Government should rather set up a special commission to
figure out how to channel funds to the survivers of Boko Haram terror campaign

not succumb to the pressures brought to bear by their sponsors and some

unpatriotic Nigerians.
The stated cause for which the Hausa/Fulani terrorists are slaughtering innocent

Nigerians for, merits neither a dialogue nor an an amnesty.The crimes they have

committed fall within the realms of genocide and heinous crimes against humanity.
At the very long run,the Prosecutor Chief of International Criminal Court,
Madam Fatou Bensounda will be called in to take over this case.

Angryman

I agree with you
We should be talking about International Court of Justice for crimes against humanity instead of amnesty

CHUKS

LET ME TELL YOU GUYS SOME, WE ARE JUST TALKING, TELL ME WHO CAN GO ASO ROCK FROM FORUM AND TELL GEJ TO STOP THE AMNESTY? HE HAS SAID IT, IF THAT AMNESTY WILL BRING PEACE IN NIGERIA, LET IT BE.

CHUKS

LET ME TELL YOU GUYS SOME THING, WE ARE JUST TALKING, TELL ME WHO CAN GO TO ASO ROCK FROM THIS FORUM AND TELL GEJ TO STOP THE AMNESTY? HE HAS SAID IT, IF THAT WILL AMNESTY WILL BRING PEACE IN NIGERIA, LET IT BE.

Time To Rise

Given amnesty to BH is not the solution to Nigeria problem, another group would spring up soon. If Nigeria government put their priority in place by doing meaningful things into the society who will engage in criminal activities? It is time for Nigerians to stand on their foot to challenge this government. We all know how to blow grammars but no action when will average Nigerian enjoy simple basis amenities? All states in Nigeria have local govt counselor and chairman, does anyone challenge them for what they have done into community? They receive monthly allocation what do they do with it? Let challenge them without violence.

iwu

Some people kill innocent civilians for no just course and they ar been paid for their crime in the form of amnesty. The question is, those hundreds and thousands of innocent innocent people that BH has killed what becomes of their death and families? They died like for no just course like chrismas goats. GEJ another group is coming and they will demand amnesty. God will judge all of you.

george

President Jonathan have know clue on how to defeat the extremism, those Muslim in Jonathan cabernet and PDP have brain wash him to grant amnesty to this jihadist,if he went to win election from north 2015, Mr.President you are a loser, terrorism have come to stay in Nigeria therefore granting amnesty to those Islamic sect will not solve the problem the north leaders were afraid because Boko Haram strategists now was to attack the so called leaders of north

Secondly the northern leaders have politicize Boko Haram issue perhaps Muslim is religion of violence agree or not, Islam insurgents operate across our neighboring country like Mali Chad and Niger, this counties are 90% Muslim recently Malians even Sudan never called for amnesty only Nigerians are calling amnesty for jihadist.

Iraq is 90% Muslims, Pakistan is 95%muslim Afghanistan 95% Muslim Yemen 95% Muslim Indonesia 90% Muslim all this countries have jihadist but never called for dialogue or grant amnesty to any of these Islam insurgents I went to tell Mr. Jonathan you are just a failure to entire Nigerians,he international community are watching this scenario,for you to win 2015 election unless by rigging or the opposition parties could not present a creditable candidate to Nigerians

abiodun johnson

It is more wise to look at the advantages of the amnesty rather than it’s psychological impact on those it affected.

The damages had been done, the killing still continue, the presidency have no clue on how to stop the carnage, the only choice left is to bargain for peace through amnesty.

In an earlier post, I listed a few of its advantages, but the most obvious is the exposure of the culprits, someone has to come forward to claim the benefits of the amnesty.

Also, we should consider the fact that by giving amnesty to Boko Haram through the request of northern elders, the president have invariably handed the responsibility of controlling the evil acts of Boko Haram to the northern elders that requested for it, and they will be held responsible for any future killing.

Bola Tinubu earlier requested for the same amnesty after consultations with the same northern elders that are agitating for it now, but his request was rejected by the presidency, and now that these elders themselves came forward, the best is to listen and cooperate and see the end result.

I do not totally support the idea, but after a bit thoughts, and since there are no other solution from the presidency, it is wise to bargain for peace.

If after amnesty the killing continues, and the presidency decides to wipe out the entire enclave of Boko Haram regardless of collateral damages to women, children or passer byes, I doubt If any Nigerian or any international community will say one word.

Besides, it will be interesting to see the performance of this president without any security issue before 2015 election.

Sunny Oke.

GEJ please look in the dictionary and see what the word amnesty means first, secondly what message are u trying to send to other lawless criminals in our society? you form your criminal enterprise and embark on a mass murdering escapade of innocent people and seek and be granted amnesty in the end and a decent pay off ? gentlemen Nigeria does not have a government let alone a president.For everyone’s info no country can ever survive without justice reason why Nigeria has not and would never advance as a nation.You can get away with anything in Nigeria has been a common phrase for years, reasons public office holders loot the place dry and no determent penalties to set definitive examples to others, so sad the black man does not know what effective legislation and implementation means.I hope GEJ is not so & naive weak to grant the amnesty cos if he does he is only seeking support for 2015 and nothing more , such a shame to those that lost their lives .

I ‘m not surprise of his decision, afterall he always act as a member of the sect sinces the insurgency & no members of his family has been affected by the senseless killings. PDP has succeded in sacrifice the blood of innocent Nigerians on Jonathan’s ambition for 2015.

Cobalt_Red

The F**king idiot northerners would not want to pass any proper law in Nigeria, and their representatives are opposed to the PIB, but want amnesty for boko haram, because they know boko haram will never work, and that they will get money from there. Amnesty does NOT mean money, it means pardon, the FG must be clear about that. May be rehabilitation.
Secondly, what is the probability that the killings will stop? how about the killed christians? and other innocent people? are they not going to pick up arms. There is a very high likelihood the amnesty will fail – to be specific, the killings will not stop as new groups will arise. When the boko haram faces are revealed, then they will walk around in peace right? after killing over 2000 people right? – absolute nonsense.
All this rubbish and pressure is because the French forces have dislodge islamists in Mali, Chadian forces are dealing with them on their side, killing the leaders of AQIM, the US has setup a drone base in Niger and the Nigerian army is dealing with them on the home front.
At the point of defeat – foolish GEJ is offering amnesty to these foolish killers who never realised that they can never win….I believe he is threading a very dangerous road if the game plan is political. If the muslim northerners think they will once again rule Nigeria peacefully, then they are very very DELUSIONAL. It will never happen.
The south is watching.

Dan

PDP government like NEPA.
Who is Jonathan granting amnesty to? Ghost? How do u 4give the dead? Nawa for Jonathan and PDP o. Them wan spend our money on ghost. What about d victims (dea families)of the ghost? What do stand to benefit from this amnesty?

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1.
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2.
A LYING TONGUE,

3.
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4.
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Boko Haram, Politicians… from the north, you sponsor the
vulnerable to maim others but send your biological children abroad to acquire
quality, western education you said was sinful. You sponsor the gullible youths
against the poor. How you’ve painted your streets with the blood of the
defenseless and brought generational curses on your children!

Rev. 16:6: “For they have shed the blood of
saints and

prophets, and thou hast
given them blood to drink

for they are worthy.”

“Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness,
for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed
innocent blood in their land.”

Joel
3:19 KJV

What a disaster you have brought upon your
generation and the

Northern
states! Your land shall be ravaged with epidemics, sudden death of

eminent people, hunger, diseases, disasters
etc.

Go
ahead and kill more! However, be reminded that even if you sheathe your swords
afterwards, nemesis will still catch up with you:

“For when they shall say [ or seek], Peace and
safety [amnesty] ; then sudden destruction
cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;

and
they shall not escape.” 1 Thess. 5:3 KJV.
(Emphases in brackets mine).

A man reaps what
he sows! (Gal.6:7).

NB: The only way out is REPENTANCE AND FAITH IN CHRIST –the only sacrifice
for sin.

The essence of a leader is one that is able to change his or her mind if and when facts dictate such. You guys need to start reading between the lines. Don’t just read and start blabbing your mouth. Ihejirika chief of army staff, Said on Thursday that they are “baffled” by the tactics of Boko Haram, that sounds like a man who has no clue as to how to get rid of the menace anytime soon. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is called lunacy.

The details of this amnesty has not even been decided yet. I agree that no one should be paid, criminals should not be compensated. You have to try a different tactic to in order to get the upper hand. Waiting on America to come and fight Boko Haram is like waiting for the arrival of Jesus, You be waiting till the end of time. Americans will not get involved unless it is affecting the oil supply. Even if they come, they will not get rid of Boko Haram anytime soon, in fact it will make it much much worse. It will only help Boko to recruit new members.

Akapo Damilare

Negotiating with a terrorist group in the name of amnesty is a crime under international law. We need intelligent generals and officers in the Nigeria Armed forces ro tackle this public menace that is being supported by a leader that is avaricious of the perks of power.

http://www.facebook.com/tina.eboka.5 Tina Eboka

Southern men you people are too weak,it is time to come out for revolution stand-up get-up.

Garden-City Boy

Professor Wole Soyinka was right after all when he characterized the PDP a “NEST `OF KILLERS”. The amnesty clamor by the same party begins to give Gen. Azazi’s death the coloration of an organized ‘accident’. He had re-echoed Prof. Soyinka’s observation, for shortly before he was killed, the late NSA told a bewildered nation that Boko Haram was a by-product of the PDP politics. He did so on good authority, and might have been made to pay a price.
Thousands of innocent, law-abiding citizens are sent to early graves on a daily basis. The victims are the lowly, scrounging citizens about their daily chores and barely making a meal a day. They provoked nobody. This PDP-led government owed them the obligation for security of their lives and property. But they don’t get it. Our zealous security agents are battered, bloodied and even killed in the line of duty and in their commitment to protect a vulnerable society. Their children are orphaned, and wives widowed. The pervading anguish is palpable across the land.
The administration, ‘without thinking twice’, was quick with a N100,000,000 compensation for the family and followers of Mohamed Yusuf, the notorious leader of a satanic the Boko Haram lynch mob. The administration would not say how it monitored those funds to ensure it was not diverted to the acquisition of weaponry for terrorists as is widely speculated. Again, ‘without thinking twice’, security officers alleged to have ‘murdered’ a most wanted criminal, were hurriedly arrested and arraigned for an expedited court trial for “murder”. The same terrorist group was splashed with another mint-fresh N100,000,000 bounty, direct from the vaults of Nigeria’s Central Bank, as reward for the massive slaughter and wanton destruction in Kano. The unbridled holocaust was scandalously celebrated with great fanfare and street carnivals across Kano by awusas.
Up until now, the PDP administration has given no thought to the plight of victims, or even to the survivors of the bestiality of barbaric islamists.Signs abound indicating that the Nigerian state has peddled shameful and blatant immorality and that it has long abdicated its cardinal obligations to law-abiding society, ignored their yearnings
and thrown them to rabid dogs and blood-guzzling islamic extremists. It is expedient for the establishment to quickly accord the “extra-judicial” murder status on the death of a notorious murderer, Mohamed Yusuf’s death. On bended knees, it rushed unsolicited cash compensations to appease barbaric islamists and terrorists, inadvertently glamorizing barbaric crime.
But Ken Saro-Wiwa, an ethnic minority Southern Christian, was brutally murdered along with his kinsmen by an awusa army dictator. The establishment has ever considered revisiting the glaring extra-judicial murder of the Ogini 9. The same goes for the APO 6 when six Southerners, mainly Igbo youths, were brutally murdered by awusa police officers who walked away from prosecution on what appears to be a state-authored ‘arrangement’. So, for all intents and purposes of the Nigerian state, the Ogoni 9 were not worth as much as unwanted obstacles in the path to the oil blocs in the region’s mangrove fauna .
Chief M.K.O. Abiola was incarcerated by awusas for his temerity to exercise a
popular presidential mandate following a vote. He never made it out of awusa jail alive. His wife was callously cut down on a busy Lagos street by the bullets of a state detail. Dele Giwa got snuffed out by a parcel bomb delivered by these same people. For this same reason, a demonic Nigerian state finds it both convenient and expedient to ignore the unwarranted, frenzied slaughter of over 50,000 Igbos by insane awusas in the 1966 pogrom. It remains the most outrageous cover-up of all time! Yet, no week passes by without islamist militia groups -deceptively dubbed “fulani herdsmen”- going on a maniacal killing frenzy of Plateau people. They have slaughtered whole families, sacked communities, and made human barbecue out innocent Berom landowners. The unfolding veritable genocide in Plateau State is not going unnoticed by the outside world. Those people watch their homestead taken away for fulani cattle grazing. The catalog goes on. For how much longer must the Plateau people be made to stare into the gun barrels of the Fulani militia? The ominous overhanging pall is certainly both disquieting and predictive; and something got to give.
To cut an “amnesty” deal with compulsive murderers gives veracity to the thinking that the “SACRED COW” phenomenon is not, after all, a myth. It has, perhaps, come to stay as state policy. It aims to shield awusas from justice, place them above the rule of law and compromised the judicial system. It is a provision for a unlimited leverage for reckless acts of shocking, blood-chilling impunity to be exercised as and when they choose.
Therefore, it is only logical to conclude that, with this new “amnesty and compensations” twist, the Nigerian State assumes an unsavory stigma of sponsor of the
systematic elimination of a segment of its society -Southerners and Christians- by
Nigerian islamists. That, indeed, is a simplistic definition of genocide.
Some while back, the maniacal conduct of Northern islamists fueled concerns about plans to eliminate this President. The Ijaw leaders of the South-South region issued very stern warnings, promising grave consequences that could trail such mindless escapade. In a braggadocios response, an awusa ex-military ‘president’ reminded the Ijaw leaders and the nation at large that Goodluck Jonathan is President for all of Nigeria, not just an Ijaw president. As a result, he further countered, the heavens would not fall should awusas murder the President.
That message was absolutely clear. It defines the awusa agenda and underscores the reality of an adopted state culture of human impunity. It drives home the fact that intolerant awusas have very little stomach to accommodate Southern kafiris.It does not strike as a surprise when an islamic awusa leader vows to make more bloodied monkeys, dogs and baboons out of us should he loose a 2015 election -an election he already lost upfront.
We watch with intense focus for how this President will dare turn his back on the law-abiding masses, or put a stamp of endorsement to the death warrant of Southerners and Christians of this country with an unfortunate “amnesty” deal for jihadist iconoclasts and islamist murderers. We are all waiting to see President mortgage his conscience
or sell his soul to the devil.

Oyelami Biodun

Mr president is telling us lyings. Why it was declined to seat round the table with delegates of these religious sects? Unless to seat down in Aso Rock and uttering unlawful pledge, the before 2015 electricity will be well, is that what she supposed to say is?! Because he aint man but sluggard.

http://www.facebook.com/nnagoziec Paul C. Nnagoziec

Of coursei will never kick against this amnesty of a thing, but my advise is that Nigeria should be ready and willing to offer much more future amnesty that will come up if this one is granted. Atleast a steady/standby committee should be set up for this purpose so that whenever any point in time any person(s) group(s) come up and make their own demand it will be granted immediately. Atleast it will encourage and give some of us hope of bouncing on lives and properties by tomorrow and at last gaining amnesty as a reward. I support this movement for sure

ODO EJYKE …. ENUGU

If u say amnesty is not the best option for Boko Haram in Nigeria please tell us the best option

ODO EJYKE …. ENUGU

At this point what do you suggest should be a solution to Boko haram if not amnesty?

Eric

For the love of God, and service onto humanity, what is it that Mr. President is thinking about? Why is it that some leaders just can’t do without making the innocent young minds doubt miracles. I once admire this GCFR of mine, but now, even though I’m small in age and has no experience or know how it feels to be under many pressures as a leader.

But with my inexperience experience, I know that before you be a friend of a man, you must know is location, what he does and a bit of his past. Boko Haram is a group of people that no Nigerian know too. They exist like a parasite, as a bacteria you can’t see with you human eyes and these are set of people Mr. President want to use public fund to do amnesty for. Is this reasonable enough? Niger Delta Amnesty programme was done people the militants were know and aren’t parasite… Who are the people that advice Goodluck?